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You wouldn't think that the story of
"Cyberpunk 2077's" release could get any more sad,
but here we are.
Developer CD Projekt Red
has been the victim of a cyber attack,
and the hackers have threatened to release the source code
for "Cyberpunk," an unreleased version of "The Witcher 3,"
along with the main version,
and the trading card game "Gwent," if CDPR doesn't pay up.
But CDPR announced, they would do no such thing.
- [Guy] We don't negotiate with terrorists.
- Exactly, they're bad-asses,
then, and really cool,
just like V in the game, "Cyberpunk 2077."
You haven't played it.
- [Guy] I've seen "V for Vendetta."
- Same thing.
So, the hackers,
have already started to release the source code.
Game files for "Gwent" are being shared
in various places online, along with a text file that reads,
"The next release is tomorrow."
So if you were waiting for the game to be all patched up,
glitch free and secure, you might be waiting a while.
I mean, it's a vicious cycle.
The hackers' message to the studio
kinda made it sound like they were upset
that the game was released in the sorry state that it was.
Shoulda just pulled a Star Citizen.
If you don't release it as an actual game, no one gets mad.
They're like, "It's a beta, it's okay."
Intel's upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors
will be backwards compatible
with the current Gen Z 490 and H470 motherboards,
but not with the lower end 400 series chipsets.
- [Guy] This changes my Intel upgrade.
- Wait, does it? - [Guy] Yeah!
- Why are you happy about that?
- [Guy] Saving money! - Okay.
Now it's believed this limitation
is due to the H410 and B640 chipsets
being built on an older 22 nanometer process node,
which must be pretty fricking old since it feels like
Intel has been on the 14 nanometer mode since--
- [Guy] So that was 14. - That's better.
- [Guy] (mumbles) a long time.
- I was gonna say since the Paleozoic,
but that, that's better. - [Guy] Same thing.
- Well, Gigabyte has found
a weird way around the limitation.
They're going to release new H410 motherboards
that actually use the H470 chipset,
which is like, great,
but it doesn't help the people
who already have an H410 board.
It's like being prevented from filling up your car with gas
but "Hey, you can buy this new version of your same car.
Just please don't buy a Ryzen."
- [Guy] Please. - Please!
And Signal, the new darling
of the encrypted messaging community,
is in a bit of hot water with that very community.
It all started when Signal added support for a simple proxy
that would allow users in countries like Iran
to get around government network blocks.
Community members pointed out that using the proxy
wouldn't prevent the government
from seeing that an individual has used it,
which could still be dangerous.
But because this objection was posted on GitHub,
Signal shut down the thread,
saying it should be discussed on the Signal forums,
leading to a lot of finger pointing both ways,
up down, diagonally.
Apparently there are better ways
for Signal to implement a proxy that might better hide
user activity from government sensors,
but they're much more complicated.
The point being,
the entire concept of privacy is dead,
and we should probably just wait
for Mark Zuckerberg's world-eating machine
to embrace us in its cold arms of death.
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you might as well just be on Facebook Messenger.
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Ubisoft is gonna move away
from making those stupid old triple A story-based games,
and will focus more on free to play titles,
since those make more money,
and they're butt-hurt after The Embracer Group,
who just bought Gearbox,
overtook them as the most valuable gaming company in Europe.
I think this is great.
You know, Ubisoft is gonna make
a bunch of "Star Wars" games.
Can't wait for the mobile game
about how just before he got completely cynical,
Luke opened a casino.
Remember, the force always wins.
Steam has officially launched in China.
Although thanks to the great firewall,
the platform will only have 41 titles available to start.
Apparently, the rest of Steam's 48,000 game library
will have to get individually approved by the government
before it can be listed.
Of course, that doesn't really matter,
when the player base for those 41 games together
has more people than all of Canada.
We got lots of room for activities.
There's, awesome. - Activities!
- Oh, there's one right now.
Facebook is reportedly working on a competitor
to the invite-only social audio app, Clubhouse.
Because obviously, Facebook can't tolerate
an app getting popular that isn't owned by them.
That wouldn't make any sense.
Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp.
These are the only apps people use.
You're telling me there's another app, that people...
Destroy it.
Andrew Spinsk, co-creator of popular sandbox game "Terraria"
announced the game "Stadia Port" is canceled
after his Google accounts were locked,
for no discernible reason,
knee capping his company's workflow for weeks.
Google's customer service bots responded to his request.
But apparently, the latency was just too high.
And Hyundai, has announced another walking car concept.
Although this one isn't quite car sized
as it is dog sized.
Confusingly, however,
the concept is called the Tiger X1,
and is designed to operate in extreme environment.
Maybe even the moon.
- [Guy] Or our workplace.
Yeah, it's crazy here!
- It's extreme.
While this is cool,
I really just wanna see
if it could win in a fight with Spot.
Robot fights!
Destroy yourselves for my pleasure.
All right, that's about enough of this.
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